Students create assemblage art

Artist, and Professor Emeritus at Pepperdine University, Bob Privitt, right, chats with Walnut Canyon School first grader Ben Sweet about his own "assemblage" art piece Tuesday at the school in Moorpark. Privitt gave a presentation of his unique award winning art which incorporates a bizarre sense of humor and play-on-words before the students made their own creations.

Walnut Canyon School first-grader Abigail Tedder works on an assemblage art project Tuesday after Bob Privitt of Thousand Oaks, an artist and professor emeritus at Pepperdine University, gave a presentation of his award-winning art, which incorporates a bizarre sense of humor and play-on-words.

Assemblage artists use found objects to create three-dimensional composition.